As a mildly internet-famous man, I get fan mail sometimes. Often in the form of drive-by blog comments that show up fairly regularly in the “pending” folder on my WordPress dashboard.
This morning I discovered a flattering little missive from someone calling himself RedPillGuard, who has many strong feelings about me, most of them loosely tied to my alleged status as a guy with a particular Greek letter attached to me.
David you are a gamma male, worse than an omega or beta. Not only do you have a female mindset, your kind embody the unflattering, backstabbing, evil, ruthless, greedy, cowardly, stubborn and manipulative qualities of women.
Not only do I have a “female mindset” but I’m also … like a woman?
Where they have Cleopatra you betas have Gamma Males like yourself.
I thought I was just a Gamma. Now I’m a Beta also? Greek is hard!
RedPillGuard follows up this expert distillation of my character by expressing the desire to see me raped in prison.
A lot of drive-by commenters would have left it at that. But RedPillGuard is just getting started. Turns out I’m responsible for several centuries worth of mass killings!
Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Khrushchev, Mao, Lenin, Robespierre, Hitler, Trotsky, Hugo Chavez,. You are the scum of this planet, in the last century your kind murdered over 100 million people on the planet, you created communism and this mess of cultural marxism today.
You can’t get laid so you channel your energy to focus on other sad activities.
Like genocide, apparently.
Women scorn you because you mirror back a woman‘s most unflattering traits, and no woman even wants you to be her beta because she knows if you had her child you would likely sell them to slavery on the black market or take them to somewhere they have a high probability of dying in.
Wat.
Sad you will not succeed.
Huh? Dude, I apparently murdered 100 million people before I was even born. I’d call that a pretty big success!
In a followup comment, RedPillGuard asks:
Why don’t you meet Roosh V in real life and see who has more confidence instead of passive-aggressively making jabs at him gamma male coward?
This is a somewhat ironic statement to be coming from an anonymous internet commenter.
At this point you may be wondering: aside from all the genocide and hypothetical child-selling, what is it exactly that defines the Gamma Male?
RedPillGuard links to an old post from Theodore “Vox Day” Beale, the racist fantasy author and self-styled pickup guru who came up with the Gamma classification, based on extensive research centered around his own posterior. According to Beale, there are four key characteristics of this imaginary personality type that he made up.
- Overly romantic (dramatic self-narrative)
- Conflict-avoidance (passive-aggressivene and plausible deniability)
- Delusion (exaggeration and posturing)
- Lack of success with women
I guess I am a bit conflict-averse, if you don’t count my intermittent political activism and most of my writing career. So that’s one out of four.
And now I have the theme song to the old Hulk cartoon show in my head. So let me, in my passive-aggressive way, put it in yours!
He knows he basically said “you’re worse than B and Z, you’re a C!” right? Like, omega is supposed to be lowest on the totem pole because it’s the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
Viscaria, this is what I’m wearing right now.
How do you keep such epic comedy gold from us? More lulz from the MRAs, more giggles from the incels!
YOU GIVE SCARY THOUGHTS. I NOT LIKE.
There, I’ve summarized all of their emails for the foreseeable future, you can just shitcan them from here on out.
OMG me too!!! What are the odds?!!
I am the Cleopatra of men of women.
@RadicalBacon
Giggles for the Giggle God. Chuckles for the Chuckles throne. Let the internet laugh.
David, I am in awe of your abilities at time management. You manage to produce blog posts, despite all the mass murder that must inevitably take up a lot of your time.
OT Hope any Mammotheers in London today are unscathed. All good thoughts to the victims, members of the emergency services and bystanders who helped. #hopenothate
I’ll give him half a point for including someone who isn’t on the standard issue historical baddies list and another half point for it being a non-communist leftist.
I wasn’t even aware that their little pop psychology theories extended all the way to gamma. Is there a delta? Omega?
You know, we talk a lot about the virgin/whore dichotomy and how much that messes with women, but these guys actually put themselves and other men in little boxes of their own. Even more boxes, apparently. I wonder if this is just a phenomenon of this sad little subculture, or if they are giving words and weirdly specific categories to the hangups and anxieties of toxic masculinity in general.
@Sinkable John
Well, given that National Socialism, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the alllegedly socialist People’s Republic of China (not to mention numerous less prominent socialist governments), it’s possible (and indeed probable), that socialism is in fact total shit and leads to totalitarianism. Which makes perfect sense really. ‘We, the Party, will own everything and run it for everyone’s greater benefit’ isn’t a meaningfully different statement than ‘We, the [capitalists/aristocrats/white/etc.], will own everything and run it for everyone’s greater benefit’. And we all know how that goes, don’t we?
And also was kind of opposed to anyone (and particularly Stalin) being a mass-murdering dictator. That’s why he was killed, in fact.
@Gussie Jives
Caligula has that infamous reputation but for my money Caracalla is the worst person to be Emperor of Rome. The lowlight: He didn’t get along with his brother and co-emperor Geta so at a meeting arranged by their mother to try to reconcile them he had men loyal to him barge in and stab Geta to death.
He also provoked a war with the Persians by offering to marry the king’s daughter, then having the whole wedding party slaughtered when they crossed into Roman territory (more sympathetic accounts say he started the war because his proposal was shot down).
There are omega and zeta, and there’s also nu.
@Gussie Jives
And, as always, they never give so much as a thought to all the lambda males.
@Dalillama : it could be good to not confuse socialism and communism.
While communism have a very bad record on staying democratic and not becoming an authoritarian hellhole, socialism is about on par with liberals and right wing people.
(the “moderate” one, aka, the one with enough common sense to not want to slaughter people one way or another)
I think if David has a female mindset, he should be compared to Elizabeth Bathory, Madame LaLurie, Aileen Wuornos and Nannie Doss.
Following genocide and communism, cultural marxism can’t help but feel a bit anticlimactic. Like, did you run out of steam at the end there?
@enjolra Arson, Murder and Jaywalking? 😉 (warning, TV Tropes link)
Speaking of Beale
http://io9.gizmodo.com/amazon-pulls-castalia-house-book-for-ripping-off-john-s-1793533638
@Ohlmann
You seem to be confusing Socialism with Social Democracy. The former is a situation where astate owns everything, ostensibly in the name of the People. They are characterized by centralized command economies, single-party authoritarian governments, and grinding squalor. The latter is capitalism with infrastructure, and works as well as capitalism can. Neither is communism, which is characterized by worker-owned cooperatives, equality, and ideally justice (although the latter two are complex social problems that won’t actually be solved by political or economic reforms per se; those still improve things a lot). My go to example, mostly because it’s the only significant scale mostly comumunist economy I know of that nobody shot after the first couple years* is the Emila Romagna province of Italy . There, Marxist (though not dogmatic) governments have been elected regularly since the 50s, and they’ve implemented policies that led to lots of worker coops, and consistent rankings at the top of provincial quality of life rankings in the EU. There’s limits to what they can do on the larger equality and justice fronts, beimg a provincial government, and I’m not saying it’s a utopia, but it sure looks like working pretty well.
*And hard statistics can be had;The Zapatistas aren’t prone to cooperation with officials, on accout of their completely valid fear that the Mexican government is gonna roll in and shoot them.
You’re getting to them, you must be doing something right. Thanks, David, keep it up!
Did the reference to Roosh May anyone else think it was Roosh?
I dunno maybe I’m overly suspicious, it just seems odd that someone is defending Roosh, when he’s lost a lot of his fan base for variously “promoting degeneracy” and “not being all that white”.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum David.
I’m spending the week with my wife’s conservative family. I’m about to fucking self-destruct.
Not even close to the point, I know, but..didn’t most of the men on that list have wives, mistresses, concubines, etc.?
I just wanted to say that I love what you do here and I think it is important and inspiring.
@Imaginary Petal
Best of luck to you. We’re here if you need to vent.